Obama’s Commie Blogger
In the same week the Obama campaign quietly removed from its official website a page managed by a fundraiser tied to the Islamic terrorist group Hamas, its official blogger has come under attack as a “hardcore Marxist” for hanging a Communist Party flag in his Harvard campus apartment and publishing in a self-professed ‘revolutionary Marxist’ journal.
Sam Graham-Felsen, a journalist-on-leave from The Nation, joined Obama for America in March 2007 where he works for the New Media department as the official blogger, daily presenting the campaign’s public face. Now he’s under fire for his reputed Marxist sympathies from bloggers at Common Ills on the left andLittle Green Footballs on the right.
Graham-Felsen, according to a 2003 article in the Harvard Crimson, adorned one corner of his shared student apartment with “a Communist Party flag … bought on their trip to Russia the summer after sophomore year.”
The revelation echoes an earlier public relations problem in February when a Houston Fox TV affiliate captured images of a volunteer in an Obama campaign office working in front of a flag featuring the image of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who became Fidel Castro’s executioner after the communist takeover in Cuba.
At that time, the Obama campaign issued a statement calling the flag “inappropriate” and noting that the office where it was displayed was funded by “volunteers” and was not the official campaign headquarters.
Graham-Felsen, however, is not a volunteer, but a staff member according toinformation published on the Huffington Post taken from the Obama for America campaign 2007 second quarter report.
In 2003, Graham-Felsen participated in a labor march in France that Associated Press reported ended in violent riots…
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Filed under: Presidential Politics | Tagged: Barak Obama, Communism, Democratic Presidential Race
After reading this I have to wonder exactly what is the purpose of this article. Is it to debase Barack Obama since he employs someone who does not share the same party affiliation? Or perhaps it is simply to “make people think”? Regardless, there is little value in either approach.
In 1945 the Labour Party gained control in the UK and was afraid that the bureaucrats that were hired by the previous regime would stymie any effort to enforce any substantial new legislation. However, against expectations, the civil service performed their duties with professionalism. Who is to say that Mr. Graham-Felsen would not do the same? Nowhere does the article claim that he is doing shoddy work or that he is incapable of competently performing that which he is hired to do. The only accusation is that he is a Marxist, which is neither illegal nor a reason to assume that he cannot be loyal to Obama in his capacity as Obama’s employee. While it might be argued that it would be preferable to employ people that are in complete agreement with your objectives and methodology, this is a matter of personal discretion. In other words, this matter is between Obama and Graham-Felsen.
As to simply making one think, it begs the question of what it is that this article is supposed to make us “think” about. Quite simply, it would seem that the direction this article wants to guide our thoughts in is exactly what I previously refuted: that Obama is somehow less worthy of our votes because he employs a Marxist. This article is nothing more than an attempt to use the vestiges of the Communist boogey to sow doubt upon those that might vote for Obama.
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